Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-09-13
4 FACTS FOR FARMERS.


Good. heavy farm horse sell well.
r---ln France over two hundred thou
sand people are engaged in raising
beets for sugar.
Wells on the farm should be thor
oughly cleaned out in the spring and
fall. AT this season there will be n few
wells that viii not contain toads both
alive and in a state of decomposition.
The Courtes Pattes is new French
breed of fowls recently introduced in
this country. They are non-setters,
and have very short legs aud large
bodies, making very compact appear
ance when dressed for market
The heaviest lamb ever raised in
the United States. an Ok ford, which
attained one hundred pounds in nine
months, was fed all the ground oats, in
addition to its mothers milk, it could
eat A twin sister reached eighty-sey-
on pounds in the same period, ,-Iatliqn=
apoiis Journal.
"A good motto for the farmer to
write oyer his barn door would bet
Push along; keep moving +" There
is q whole library of good counsel In
these words, 1t Is the soul of progress
and improvement. Push along, keep
moving, iLf1.l DIh9tl g..
THE National Agricultural De-
partmont report makes the decrease in
the hog supply 1000 600 from last
year, and the hog cholera still de-
yastatlng the herds in some parts of
the country. This points 10 good prices
for year at least.
The most valuable elements of ma.
nure arc not to lie measured by the
cord. The liquii and gaseous portions
are tho most valuable, and also the
hardest to hold. They are the first to
escape, and pass off unnoticed through
such an easy outlet.
BETTER prices are being paid for
colts and undeveloped horses now than
have been ever known before. Good
breeding and good pedigree are guar
antees upon which to judge the future
horse, and buyers can afford to take
more chances now than they could be-
fore the matter Of breeding received
the attention it now does.
Dragging harrow over the plowcd
ground is one of the hardest tasks that
horses have to do in farm work. and
teams are often imposed upon while
doing it, Tho walking is hard for both
driver and horses, and the former is
often tempted 10 ride either on the har.
row or on one of the horses, not think
ing or caring what the consequences
really are, -S!, Louis RepNb'icam
The presence of organic matter in
the soil increase Its fertility by equal
izing tho amount of water which the
soil will retain. so it defends the plant
against drouths. 1t not only absorbs
water like a sponge when it rains. but
in dry weather it abstracts moisture
from tho air which it yields to the
plant, besides it arrests and retains
certain kinds of plant food which
might otherWlse pc Whshcu away of
down Though the soil by rains, =
Golden Rule
For the perfect keeping Of milk
says q writer, it is necessary to cool
the milk on being drawn from the COW,
The dairYman who neglects to do this
part of his business fails to do his duty
to the milk and his customer, for it is
well known TO those who have investi-
gated the subject that when fresh milk
is shut up in u tight vessel without
cooling and allowed to cool off itself, II
develops very disagrccablc odor, an |
the researches Of Professors Newton
and Wallace at Long Branch lately
proved the danger Of using milk that
has not been properly treated,